April 28, 2011
Why do you recommend a 280 instead of a 190? I have your ecollar DVD but there are many problems that can come up, that are not in that DVD. Do you have any advice?
Full Question:
I have bought many of your products and have some questions? When a dog is OVERLY excited, I have been told, not to use an ecollar because it can make them aggressive! Do you agree with this? It makes plenty of sense. I have and old dogtra 1200, it goes from low to high and I have never used over 60 and I never did that but once. It goes to 100. The numbers are very small and hard to see and I am thinking of replacing it. Why do you recommend a 280 instead of a 190. I think the 280 is from low to medium and 190 is low to high, and I am sure most people never use the high, except for the exception. I have your ecollar DVD but there are "many problems" that can come up, that are not in that DVD. Do you have any advice? I don't know of a good trainer in the ec in my area. I have a very large jolly ball about the size of a basket ball, when my dog plays with it he be comes hysterical because he can't pick it up or get it. I think he would act the same with your egge toy! What do you make of this? Is it unusual? It is hard to get it away, when he gets in one of these frenzies. He traps it and wants to devour it.Roz
Cindy's Answer:
This all depends on the dog, the collar and the dog's understanding of the collar. None of my dogs would show aggression with the collar if used on the lowest possible level. Most people use collars as punishers at a high level and this can trigger aggression in an already over stimulated dog.
I like the small size of the box on the dog's neck with the 280. Since my dogs work on low level stimulation I don't need a big collar with super high levels. As it is the 280 goes from 0 to 127 in tiny increments so I can adjust the collar with fine tuning and this goes a long way to maintaining the relationship I want to have with my dogs. I don't want to hurt them or punish them with the collar, but it's a way to get their attention back on me when I don't have a physical leash on them.
Your dog sounds like me may tend to be obsessive with toys, I don't give dogs like this toys that create anxiety. It's not unusual, most of my Malinois are like this and I don't give them toys like this unless I can say DONE and they walk away from it. If you can't do that you need to have more control over your dog and until then I wouldn't give toys like a jolly ball or Egge.
Cindy
I like the small size of the box on the dog's neck with the 280. Since my dogs work on low level stimulation I don't need a big collar with super high levels. As it is the 280 goes from 0 to 127 in tiny increments so I can adjust the collar with fine tuning and this goes a long way to maintaining the relationship I want to have with my dogs. I don't want to hurt them or punish them with the collar, but it's a way to get their attention back on me when I don't have a physical leash on them.
Your dog sounds like me may tend to be obsessive with toys, I don't give dogs like this toys that create anxiety. It's not unusual, most of my Malinois are like this and I don't give them toys like this unless I can say DONE and they walk away from it. If you can't do that you need to have more control over your dog and until then I wouldn't give toys like a jolly ball or Egge.
Cindy
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